Menage v. City of Minneapolis
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to have plaintiff" adjudged the owner in fee simple of certain real property. The case" ■was tried before Holt, J., who made findings and ordered judgment! in favor of defendant. From an order denying his motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
This action was brought by appellant to quiet and establish his title: to a certain strip of land lying between the north and northeasterly *196lines of the lots and blocks in Cottage City and the shore of Lake Calhoun. The respondent in its answer claimed that the land had been dedicated as a public street. The trial court ordered judgment in favor of the defendant, and the appeal is from an order denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
In 1883 the appellant, being the owner of a tract of land of some sixty acres, with about sixteen hundred feet frontage on the south' shore of Lake…
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- Hanson v. EastmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1875
- London & San Francisco Bank, Ltd. v. City of OaklandCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1898
- Hatch v. BurbankSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
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